Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Caprelloidea (Skeleton shrimp) for Monterey County (California, USA)

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Checklist for Superfamily Caprelloidea Leach, 1814 (Skeleton shrimp)
and region Monterey County (California, USA)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	89 140 186	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	88 139 185	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Peracarida Calman, 1904	49 68 81	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Amphipoda Latreille, 1816 Amphipod, Amphipod Tubes, Amphipod Whips, Amphipods, Scuds	24 31 36	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Senticaudata Lowry & Myers, 2013	12 16 22	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Corophiida Leach, 1814	5 8 12	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Caprelloidea Leach, 1814 Skeleton shrimp, Whale lice	2 3 8	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Monterey County
2 Families width 8 Species

Caprellidae Leach, 1814	Ghost shrimps	7	Species	Taxom
Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815	Whale lice	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Monterey County
3 Genera with 8 Species

Species list for Monterey County
8 Species

Caprella angusta Mayer, 1903
Caprella brevirostris Mayer, 1903
Caprella incisa Mayer, 1903
Caprella mendax (Mayer, 1903)	⇒ Caprella equilibra Say, 1818
Caprella penantis Leach, 1814	Fourpetal St. Johnswort
Caprella verrucosa Boeck, 1871
Cyamus boopis Lütken, 1870	Whale-louse
Metacaprella kennerlyi Stimpson, 1864

Subnodes of Caprelloidea with occurrences in Monterey County

Family	Caprellidae Leach, 1814 Ghost shrimps, Skeleton shrimps	2 7	Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815 whale lice, Whale louse´	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Caprelloidea at artfakta.se
Caprelloidea at biodiversity.org.au
Caprelloidea at itis.gov
Caprelloidea at marinespecies.org